Owner's Manual

Events, Rules and Actions 831
- Suppression Duration —The Minutes, Hours or Days for suppression. The minimum is 5
minutes, and the default is 1 hour.
NOTE:
Suppression duration information also appears in Audit Trails in the job status for Alarm Suppression
Scheduled Start actions.
- Suppression Targets —Click Add to select the devices or device subcomponents on which you
want to suppress. Click
Remove to delete selected items from the list, or Remove All to clear
the entire list.
The devices you select in the Resources screen appear as
Ta rg e t s in this list, if you initiate
scheduling from Resources.
Deleting, stopping or disabling a schedule does not interrupt suppression, once it has started. You
must right click selected devices and select the
Stop Alarm Suppression or Clear All Alarm
Suppression
items. See Schedule Alarm Suppression Detail Panel on page 831 for a look at the way
to stop one of several overlapping types of alarm suppression.
When you set the time for suppression to start in the
Schedule Info panel, remember that any end
(
Stopping on... ) time you set there simply stops the suppression from starting. It does not
terminate the suppression if it has already started. See Schedule Info on page 750 for more about
the second panel in this editor.
Schedule Alarm Suppression Detail Panel
Scheduling alarm suppression also provides more information in the Resource Manager’s detail
panels.
An additional
Ending on column appears for scheduled alarm suppression on a device. Ending
suppression on components where multiple suppression types or schedules exists must occur
within this detail panel. Right-click a selected item to see the menu.